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Assertion Open · timeframe Aug 2026
Krentsel: Exo autonomously re-architected its Discord adapter, cutting costs by 96%
“We asked it, Hey, I noticed, I asked, Hey, but how much did the last message cost in the discord adapter? And it was like, it was. It's like, are you serious? 16 cents. That's actually crazy. Like. Go work on driving that down. And so it went and re-architecte…”
Alex Krentsel Aug 15, 2026 ▶ 39:44 Exo: Harnesses should see their own code and logs — Alex Krentsel, UC Berekeley / Google Research
Opinion
Cohen: Slack is S-tier for agent interfaces, while Telegram and WhatsApp lag
“So I think S tier would be Slack. And then Discord, Teams, and then goes like Telegram, and then WhatsApp. They're very, very limited in what you can do, and it's hard, like, you have to have your own phone number if you want, like, a decent experience.”
Gavriel Cohen Jun 29, 2026 ▶ 20:11 The Blueprint for Autonomous Work Agents | Gavriel Cohen, NanoClaw
Opinion
Cooper: Slack and Discord are awful tools for team communication
“I think Slack, I think, and incidentally, I think Discord's awful too.”
Jake Cooper May 20, 2026 ▶ 36:26 The Agent-Native Cloud: 3M Users, 100K Signups/Wk, Data Centers, & Death PRs — Jake Cooper, Railway
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Martin: NotebookLM Discord reports detect server outages faster than internal monitoring
“I think, honestly, like our fastest way that we've been able to find out if like the servers are down or there's just an influx of people being like, it says system unable to answer, anybody else getting this? And I'm like, all right, let's go. And it actually…”
Raiza Martin Oct 25, 2024 ▶ 9:44 How NotebookLM Was Made
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Howard: Open-source AI Discords host substantive conversations in private channels
“Nearly all the discords, nearly all of the conversation happens in private channels”
Jeremy Howard Oct 20, 2023 ▶ 49:23 The End of Finetuning — with Jeremy Howard of Fast.ai
Assertion Supported
Swix: NotebookLM's dedicated Discord server reached 65,000 members
“I just checked in on a Notebook LM Discord. 65,000 people.”
Shawn Wang Oct 25, 2024 ▶ 9:26 How NotebookLM Was Made
Assertion Supported
Wang: LlamaIndex reached 600,000 monthly downloads by September 2023
“And since you're fundraising Post, which was in June. And now it's September, so it's been about three months. You've actually gained 50% in, in terms of stars and followers. You've three X your download count to 600,000 a month and your discord membership has…”
Shawn Wang Oct 12, 2023 ▶ 19:46 RAG is a hack - with Jerry Liu of LlamaIndex
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Half of the RWKV Community Joined for Non-English Multilingual Support
“The only reason why we have a bigger outsized impact compared to like the other models is frankly because half of our discord Came in not for English. It's for other languages.”
Eugene Cheah Aug 31, 2023 ▶ 1:10:35 RWKV: Reinventing RNNs for the Transformer Era
Assertion Supported
RWKV Community Built Multimodal Vision Models Using MiniGPT-4 Architecture
“There is actually another project internally on the discord where it's Doing vision, ah, vision modeling, and this based on the, ah, is it, mini GPT-Fall paper, where, where you have an image model, put everything inside the latent space, and then you have the…”
Eugene Cheah Aug 31, 2023 ▶ 50:49 RWKV: Reinventing RNNs for the Transformer Era
Disclosure
Fredrikson: Gray Swan's Discord red teaming community has 15,000 members
“It's a really great community. Like, 15,000 people come and hang out on the Discord server. Not all of them take part in every competition, but a lot of good data and good signal is provided to, you know, the upstream model developers through, through that com…”
Matt Fredrikson Jun 22, 2026 ▶ 9:30 AI Security After Codex and Claude Code — Zico Kolter & Matt Fredrikson, Gray Swan
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Ian Webster: Discord's Clyde was built as a social bot, not a helpful bot
“The interesting thing about Clyde was that it wasn't really meant to be a, necessarily a helpful bot, but instead more of a social bot, like a bot that would just like be in your channel and, you know, help people interact and that kind of thing.”
Ian Webster Oct 24, 2025 ▶ 2:12 Breaking AI to Fix It: Ian Webster's Journey from Discord's Clyde to Promptfoo's $18M Series A
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